[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Andreas Gruhl]

Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2022 um 01:19:09 UTC+1:
> On 12/15/2022 8:50 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote: 
> > Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1: 
> >> If one could live with very old HTML standards, then 
> >> the easiest graphical browser to get to build would 
> >> probably be VMS Mosaic. It builds with VMS C and I would 
> >> expect it to build on (currently: for) VMS x86-64. 
> >> 
> >> But it is 25 years old - older than VMS NetScape. There must 
> >> be a lot of missing features in 2022. 
> >
> > You are right. It only took 5 hours to get Mosaic working on X86. 
> > But though it is 'only' 18 years old it is missing some features we 
> > would need - and the character rendering is very zigzaggy. 
> > I will try to get a hold on newer browser sources.
> That was what I expected. George Cook did a damn good job 
> maintaining VMS Mosaic for many years. But age shows. 
> 
> Any chance that you could make your changes to make 
> it build and run on VMS x86-64 available for the public? 

I feel it's my duty to make the changes public. Working on it.
Andreas
> 
> It is very old, but until NS or FF are available then 
> it is what is available. And even though I do not see 
> much professional usage, then it could be relevant 
> for hobbyists. 
> 
> Arne